Forum: Carrara

Subject: Help with Toon III

october opened this issue on Nov 30, 2000 ยท 5 posts

october posted Thu, 30 November 2000 at 11:40 AM

Hi. Got a postrendering problem with transparancy under Toon. I have a wall that I want to hang a weather poster on. The poster is a plane with a texture map, to the the edges rough I apply an opacity mask. As you can see the raytracyed render is fine, but when I apply Toon I get artifacts around the full plane. Turns out it's a really nice effect, and I think I'll keep it, but for future reference is there a work around? I've changed all my render settings both globaly and on the plane object itself, and I have overridden the planes toon method to 0 toon effect 0 line effect, but still get the artifacts.

ewinemiller posted Fri, 01 December 2000 at 12:35 PM

october, The problem is that Toon! doesn't understand transparency. The extra information that Toon! uses to create the Toon!ed image only has one layer of of information. So when the it goes to figure out where the edges are, it finds the edge of the partially transparent plane at the edge of the plane, not at the edge of your opacity mask and it doesn't know about anything obscured by the plane. I would have imagined that turning off the line effect on the plane would have made it blend with the wall. I did a little sample scene and came across the same effect. I'll take a look at it and see if there is anything we can do. Thanks, Eric Winemiller Digital Carvers Guild Freeware and commercial 3D extensions http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins

ewinemiller posted Sun, 03 December 2000 at 10:45 AM

october, I've posted an update to Toon! III that fixes the problem with the outline on overridden objects. You can grab the PC version at http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/downloads/DCGToon.zip or the Mac version at http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/downloads/DCGToon.sit Thanks, Eric Winemiller Digital Carvers Guild Freeware and commercial 3D extensions http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Carrara and LightWave plug-ins

october posted Sun, 03 December 2000 at 12:03 PM

Oh, my god. That was quick! Thanks so much, I wish corporate software developers could fix bugs this quickly! I vote that you take over Carrara :) Take Care.

ClintH posted Sun, 03 December 2000 at 1:46 PM

LOL! october, Thats funny! I agree that Eric and many of the other developers have great response times. Clint

Clint Hawkins
MarketPlace Manager/Copyright Agent


All my life I've been over the top ... I don't know what I'm doing ... All I know is I don't wana stop!
(Zakk Wylde (2007))